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Tip: Changing file names recursively from command line

2010-03-01T20:14:00.000+01:00

Recently I've found very nice tool to change file names recursively, and fixing file names encoding. The tool is called convmv. It might be very helpful if you're migrating from older systems (or you had bad samba config). Exact description of convmv from project site. convmv converts filenames (not file content), directories, and even whole filesystems to a different encoding. This comes in

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Watch out for fake flash drives

2010-02-28T22:21:00.000+01:00

Note: All software described/linked in this article is for Microsoft Windows Operating System. Recently my friend bought 128GB "Kingston" USB Flash Stick from some guy at eBay. He discovered that flash was fake. Remember, before buying USB stick read article "detecting your flash disk real capacity" and always try to test device before buying it. Here some stats from our test, it

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35 Google open-source projects that you probably don't know

2009-12-27T14:01:00.010+01:00

This text is translation of: 34 projekty Open Source udostępnione przez Google Update: Currently list is longer than 35 projects, during change from Polish to English I have added one new project - and this is why title says 35 instead 34 ;). After updates there are even more! Sorry for your confusion. Google is one of the biggest companies supporting OpenSource movement, they released more

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34 projekty Open Source udostępnione przez Google

2009-12-26T14:09:00.003+01:00

Google jest jedną z największych firm wspierający ruch wolnego oprogramowania, Gigant z Mountain View w sumie wypuścił ponad 500 projektów jako OpenSource, postaram się przedstawić listę tylko tych ciekawszych, jakie zostały upublicznione. Przetwarzanie plików tekstowych Google CRUSH (Custom Reporting Utilities for SHell) Jest to kolekcja narzędzi przeznaczonych do pracy na plikach TSV/

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Microsoft LifeCAM NX-3000 on Linux and Skype

2009-12-24T13:11:00.002+01:00

Microsoft LifeCAM NX-3000 is nice little web cam, which works on GNU Linux (this is strange). Some people have problems with this webcam and Skype. How to solve problems with Skype Download newest version of Skype Install it dpkg --force-all -i skype-*.deb Configure pulseaudio (using GUI) Go to Audio settings Check if you have web cam detected (if not install additional kernel

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Manipulacja tekstem w Bashu

2009-12-23T16:11:00.000+01:00

Bash jest całkiem dobrym narzędziem jeżeli chodzi o manipulację tekstem (oczywiście nie może się umywać do Perla/Seda/AWKa/Pythona), ale sporo funkcji ma zaimplementowanych, wiele osób nawet sobie nie zdaje z tego sprawy. W tej notce spróbuję część tej funkcjonalności przedstawić: Wypisywanie całości plików cat łączenie i wypisywanie plików - zobacz useless cat award tac łączenie i

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BitLocker without TPM Module in Windows7

2009-12-19T14:56:00.001+01:00

Windows BitLocker can store "password to disk" on USB stick, not only in TPM hardware module. To make it happen you have to activate some advanced settings (why there are no dialog like: "save my key on usb disk"?) How to save Windows7 BitLocker key on USB stick? Click: Start | Search, type gpedit.msc and hit enter Navigate to: Local Computer Policy + Computer Configuration ++

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Pomysł na serwer plików

2009-12-14T22:27:00.002+01:00

Od pewnego czasu mogę w ciągu dnia korzystać z macierzy dyskowej (NAS) podłączonej do sieci Ethernet, całość to zamknięte w bardzo małej obudowie dwa dyski spięte w RAID1 :). Powiem że takie rozwiązanie jest bardzo wygodne do współdzielenia plików pomiędzy paroma komputerami (polecam!), lub po prostu jako miejsce przechowywania dużych ilości danych (backup, storage). Macierz z jakiej

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Electronic devices - rapid prototyping environments

2009-12-13T13:37:00.002+01:00

There are many platforms that can be used for rapid prototyping of electronics devices, in this article I will write about two of them which are quite popular. Arduinio Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or

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Ubuntu screen profiles in SUSE Linux

2009-12-03T14:32:00.015+01:00

What is this all about? I like the look of screen application in Ubuntu, this feature is provided by screen-profiles package, which is not present in SUSE Linux (SLES 11). Before start Run zypper install newt newt-python to install dependencies. Solution contents of install-screen-profiles.sh #!/bin/bash PACKAGE_NAME='screen-profiles_1.44-0ubuntu1.2_all.deb' WORKDIR='workdir-sp' OPWD=`

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Howto send email from bash on DLink DNS-323

2009-11-28T12:11:00.004+01:00

This can be done only on hacked dns-323 ffp/fun_plug. Many people have problem sending emails from shell scripts using DNS-323, it is possible without installing additional software or writing scritps. Sending emails right from bash scripts in DNS-323 is quite easy, but it took me some time to make it work. Software already installed on NAS Sending mails from this device can be done

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Getch() function in Linux

2009-11-23T20:58:00.001+01:00

Some long time ago I was searching for GetCh() implementation on Linux, and I've entered google new groups and found some good stuff. Today durning some cleanings on my system I've found saved html page with this, so i will paste it here (this blog is my notepad recenty). Post wost starting like this: Anybody have any *GetCh*() style non-blocking code that works? I've seen some samples out

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64k Demos

2009-11-23T20:28:00.000+01:00

Not only 64k but mostly, first few were found some long time ago, rest is quite new. Aardbei - Southside Exploration Chaos Theory by Conspiracy (Demo) scene.org Fairlight - Dead RingerFairlight - Dead Ringer Amiga demo - electricity 64k demo by Appendix - 2000 PC Demos - Artcity And as extras some commercials of PS3. The multi dimensional ps3 PS3 cell capabilities

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Almost winter

2009-11-23T19:48:00.000+01:00

I would like to ride snowboard/ski someday like these guys, the music is also quite nice. REPLAY! IsenSeven - Prediculous Alice In Videoland - Lay Me Down (Prediculous Snowboarding) Snowboardclip 17 Alice in Videoland - Stuck on my Vision Snowboardclip 8 ♫ Roxette - The Look Guano Apes - 360° Aliendrop [Snowboard Version]

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Some helpful Linux software

2009-11-17T21:48:00.001+01:00

Network Some tools which could be helpful in network and system troubleshooting driftnet - Picks out and displays images from network traffic ettercap - Multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN netcat - TCP/IP swiss army knife arping - sends IP and/or ARP pings (to the MAC address) mtr - Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool nmap - The Network Mapper

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Linux IMAP Mail Notifier

2009-11-17T20:56:00.002+01:00

If you want be notified about new mail in Linux, only using IMAP protocol you should consider using mail-notification - it's small application for Gnome, it looks like this: And really works quite nice, just test it mail-notification --sm-disable

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Linux Tip: Color enabled pager - less

2009-11-17T20:38:00.001+01:00

Recently I was using a command line tool which was generating many lines of color text. The output was displayed so fast on my xterm, that I couldn't read it. So I thought, that I could use "| less" pager to see what's up, and I was wrong :( - less "out of the box" doesn't support colors. I've tried most pager but I prefer less. ... but there is a way! Less doesn't support colors "as it is",

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MySQL and UTF-8 - locales and some advanced settings

2009-11-03T11:18:00.003+01:00

Default locales, and collation in MySQL since 4.1 is latin1_swedish_ci, it works well but if you have some polish texts it's not so good, there is way to change defaults, and it is quite easy. After installation of MySQL edit your config file (default location of this file is /etc/mysql/my.cnf). Find [mysqld] section in my.cnf Add this entries to it: [mysqld] # # Enable Polish

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OKI MB290 Fax - password reset (web server)

2009-10-20T14:32:00.002+02:00

To reset password in OKI MB290 Fax/Printer/Scaner/Copier you have to: Press up arrow - enter menu Press * (star) Press # (hash) Find SOS22 and push OK putton when hilighted There should be 0001... and 4th 1 from leftside indicates that web server requires password login Change 4th digit to 0, and press OK You are done It's very simple when you know what SOS is for what ... if you don't

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One note for enviroment (Blog Action Day)

2009-10-15T08:20:00.001+02:00

I have joined a Blog Action Day. Today I should write something about climate change, but I have found some stuff related, and probably this will be the best idea to repost it here. Renewable sources of energy has some effect to local environment (birds are falling to large wind turbines, and many solar power plants causes local temperature raise by few degrees). I think that we should use

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Eclipse is not so great for Perl developers

2009-09-29T14:13:00.002+02:00

Of course there is EPIC which is great - real IDE for writing in Perl, but when it comes to update whole IDE, all gets frustrating so what can I say: I really do not like the update system in Eclipse, for me is much faster to make: rm -rf ~/projects/deps-eclipse/* ~projects/workspace-eclipse/.metadata/ Goto: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/, download whole new source and install new version

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Images from space by NASA

2009-09-28T22:33:00.002+02:00

If you are interested to see space (but not in Google Earth), you can download some pictures from space.com (thanks Elliot for posting URL). But if you are interested in images of Earth some high-resolution pictures can be found at http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ (photos are REAL HUGE - resolution: 86400 x 43200) - Direct link to images.

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Howto execute system commands in Perl and possible danger

2009-09-28T12:59:00.000+02:00

There are various ways to run system subproces in Perl. I will mention only 7 - few native (exec(), system, qx{}/``) and few which use additional libraries (Open("|"), IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3, IPC::Cmd) which are in fact in standard Perl distribution so they can be used without worries. Introduction Most people think that running system command from Perl is only done by system() or exec(), but

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Wget like progress bar in console

2009-09-23T09:30:00.004+02:00

Some time ago I was writing about notifying user that our software does not hang out, today I will also write about this. It is easy to create progress bar, and there is a numerous modules done (Oreily.com). But creating a simple progress bar (which looks like progress bar in wget) is pretty straight forward. Output with detailed progress Warning: This is only example after each execution of

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Pomysł na projekt elektroniczny

2009-09-15T13:42:00.000+02:00

Ostatnio natknąłem się na fajne urządzenie w sieci Królika Nabaztag, jak to zawsze jest z nowościami cena okazała się być strasznie wysoka ;). Ale wpadł mi do głowy pomysł, że można coś takiego zbudować samemu - jako, że nie lubię elektroniki daje tutaj tylko pomysł ;). Funkcje Informowanie o pogodzie Informowanie o nowych mailach/twittach/blipach/rss-ach/aktywności znajomych na Facebook

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